Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

[Stef Walter]

On 04.05.2013 07:26, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 05/03/2013 03:08 PM, Reartes Guillermo wrote:
>> I think that the previous behaviour was better. (covering the password
>> with bullets).
>>
>> At least the phones only show one character at a time, not the whole
>> password.
> 
> GTK shows everything or nothing with visibility being a boolean setting.
> GTK would need to gain the ability to do this most likely through a new
> property for a GtkEntry widget.

There's already this exact phoneish password hint capability in GTK+
with the 'gtk-entry-password-hint-timeout' setting. Turn it on in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, or use
gtk_settings_set_string_property()

Cheers,

Stef